Datura grass
Datura-grass, which is popularly called a water drink or a mad potion, is an annual plant. On good soils, it reaches an altitude of one meter in an extremely short time. The native land of this plant is Mexico and the eastern part of North America. For medical purposes, seeds and leaves are used. The collected raw materials can be used for two years.
Datura grass is a very toxic plant. Its use is possible only after consulting a specialist. The main active substances that make up the plant are atropine and hyoscyamine. It also contains a little scopolamine and other alkaloid elements that accompany it. Leaves of medicinal plants are used for the production of anti-asthmatic cigarettes and smoking powder. After further processing, they are used as extracts and tinctures. From the seeds, anti-asthmatic drops are prepared.
Tincture, in which the raw material is grass-dope, has been used for a long time. European healers used it to prevent, treat, and improve the general condition of the patient's body. Special use of tincture from this medicinal herb found with cardiac muscle ischemia and numbness of limbs, strokes and infarcts, neurasthenia and neuralgia, epilepsies and whooping cough. It was used for hiccups and chorea, prolapse of the rectum and uterus, thrombophlebitis and varicose veins.
Medicinal tincture, the raw material for the production of which are the seeds of a medicinal plant, promotes heart strengthening and blood purification. For men it brings strength, relieving impotence. Datura-grass promotes the provision of spasmolytic and analgesic, as well as soothing effects on the body. The infusion of this healing plant is used for various diseases of the biliary and upper respiratory tract, as well as the organs of the digestive system. It is also recommended for convulsive, long-lasting coughs and bronchial asthma. As an analgesic, the drug is recommended for oncology of the stomach and colic. For soothing effect tincture and infusion finds its application in:
- various disorders of the central nervous system;
- mental ailments;
- neurasthenia;
- dyspnea;
- epilepsy;
- spasmodic phenomena;
- violations of speech function;
- convulsive states;
- increased sexual arousal;
- hiccups;
- painful tension of the penis in the absence of its excitability;
- seasickness.
Datura-grass is a very effective analgesic for prolonged rheumatic pains and bruises, as well as neuralgia. In the form of lotions, enemas, sedentary baths and syringings, the infusion is used for partial colon and uterine prolapse.
Decoction of herb is used for the removal of inflammatory processes of the mucosa of the mouth and throat. They rub the area of pathology with mastitis and mastopathy, as well as tumors that have arisen from mechanical effects on tissues. As a means for syringing decoction of medicinal herbs finds its application in the case of inflammatory processes in the ovaries and female genital organs. Manufactured in sunflower oil, it is recommended for application to the surface of the skin with eczema.
Due to the high toxicity, the use of medicinal herbs is carried out with strict adherence to the recommended dosages. In cases of poisoning, you can observe rapid heartbeat, dryness in the oral cavity, temporary loss of vision accompanied by dilated pupils, and a state of strong nervous excitation. You can laugh without a reason, the occurrence of headaches and a breakdown of short-term memory. The digestive system reacts with nausea and vomiting. First aid should follow immediately.